skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a clear straw man argument, that there exists a sequence of events between people buying stocks on margin, going bankrupt, and living off of government assistance. And this occurrence is so commonplace as to warrant a proposed punitive tax on margin trade profit? What evidence do you have that this actually happens? I think you ARE making a moral argument, namely around 'risk taking' being something that society should punish and discourage via taxation. You left the second part, the societal cost (which may be real, who knows, you only offered a hypothetical government assistance scenario) completely in the realm of speculative fancy.

Not to mention, if you really truly wanted to morally punish and discourage gambling, I seriously doubt a tax on profit would make a dent in it! Have you ever met a real gambler?
The conflation of various control characters, i.e. `Ctrl-i` and `Ctrl-I`, was one of the primary reasons that convinced me to try using Emacs outside of the terminal. I'm glad I switched. Now I can make much more ergonomic keybindings.
I don't know, but this is not it:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/politics/gamestop-stock-surge...
Took 7 tries to figure out a revenue model. Guess we all get there eventually. Great post
tldr; When your stop-loss is hit, it executes at the best price available at the time, which (as far as I know) has no guarantees.

I think a good example of this is the Ethereum flash-crash on Coinbase in.... 2017? Something happened (IIRC someone submitted a very large market-sell, maybe by accident), but it completely wiped out half of the order book.

This triggered all of the stop-losses that people had submitted. But... almost the entire order book was gone. So they sold very low. Which triggered more stop-losses. Which sold lower, and so on.

In the end stop-losses ended up largely selling to one super-lucky-account-that-I'm-sure-set-this-up-as-a-joke-and-forgot-about-it who had a limit buy in for 10c/ETH.

IIRC the price was ~350 when this started. When people were able to start buying again, the price jumped up again (obviously).

But this lucky person was able to buy ~5k ETH at 10c, because all the stop-losses triggered.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
To mention something he left out: first mover advantage. Consider the great number of geniuses in tiny, mostly-illiterate Ancient Greece, for instance. Consider the simplicity of Beethoven's fifth symphony's motif, or Dijkstra's algorithm. You have to be there first. (It's not that simple, natch...)

This rankles though:

...no absolute pitch – all things very necessary to a professional performer

I wonder why someone with so much musical education would think that.
That may be the case, but it may be not.

Have you compared the sites where Astra-Zeneca played fast and loose with its vaccine experiments, and the occurence of the more contagious mutations after on a map?

Could be puzzling.
Or maybe the causality is reversed, and it is not that weed causes higher alcohol consumption but rather people who would choose to consume more alcohol would also be more likely to choose to consume more weed? Maybe there is no causality and only correlation? Has this been explained in the article?

Maybe having paid job makes you use weed less (for possible consequences of being high at work)?

Maybe cannabis doesn't cause depression but rather it is just correlated for some other unknown reason?

That's again, very poorly written article by a confused author who does not understand causality and correlation.
Additionally:
> The research project followed 1792 Australian high school students aged 15 in 1992, investigating patterns of cannabis use across 20 years.

So, mix in the confounding factor of it not being legal during those years.
I wonder if anyone has run a standard Linux distro on one of these smart TVs?
Whenever I hear about "artificial reef" stuff, it smells like someone trying to shirk dismantling and cleanup costs.
Yep, totally agreed. I have no sympathy for this one, but part of me is concerned about whether or not it has a cooling effect on short selling in general and if it does, lots of people will feel some pain in the burst of the ensuing bubble.
That's happening. I just tried to short GME and my brokerage gave me an error message that it was "hard-to-borrow" and no shares were available at this time, and to check back tomorrow.
> As a port, CCS2 is backwards compatible to CCS1. You can take a CCS1 (J1772) cable and plug it into a car with a CCS2 port. And yes, the J1772 (CCS1) is by far the standard connector in the US market. I see that connector everywhere.

CCS type 1 (J1772) and type 2 (aka "Mennekes" used in Europe) are not compatible? Both are described in IEC 62196-2 so I am not sure which other connectors could be compatible here.

> And yes, Elon could easily say "Tesla is moving all production to CCS2, all future Teslas manufactured after today will be CCS2, all Supercharger stations will be retrofitted with CCS2 cables"

This already happened in the European Union FWIW.
> “reasonable" P/E multiples of ~5 or less.

So you are saying more than 10% yield should be normal? (Assuming normal payout ratio is 50% - highly variable).
I am not sure that this study demonstrates causation, but most of the comments here reek of motivated reasoning.
A lot of fun - specifically the thrill of mixing pretty serious topics like economic existence with purely silly memery.
The Wikipedia page [0] says piracetam has been around since the 1950s, and was used to treat epilepsy as early as the 50s. Our daughter’s PEAC [1] is a rare complication of a relatively rare disease.

From my very limited understanding of the regulations, a company would have to spend the million+ dollars it costs to get FDA approval, but then wouldn’t be able to recoup that cost by selling the drug exclusively because the patent has long since expired. The US has this class of drugs that just never got approved and no drug company will ever pay to get approved, even if they are commonplace in other nations.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracetam

[1] https://medcraveonline.com/JPNC/peac-prolonged-expiratory-ap...
Thanks! I was going to say 'preserved forever for' but the double-'for' was awkward. Phrasing credit goes to fantasy author David Eddings, attitude to a C.S. Friedman character, Tarrant. Lord Demiurge has some interesting similarities!

Searches show interesting Gnostic ideas about Demiurge being a lion-faced-serpent. How appropriate. I have trouble finding a sample of Jeff Johnson as Demiurge, though.
> Does anyone actually prefer the experience of an integrated Smart TV compared to a separate device? If these users exist, they probably wouldn't be found around these parts.

Sure, I've got a Sony TV with built-in netflix/amazon prime/chromecast receiver in it. Works great. There's no tv-inserted ads while watching TV or streaming services or anything like that. There's a couple of rows of icons on the homescreen below the app icons that are 'recommended content' which i guess some people consider to be ads (they're not, as far as i can tell) but i pretty much never use the homescreen anyway.

I do always see a lot of negative sentiment around these TVs on this site but really, I'm not bothered by mine at all and in fact quite like not having another device to wrangle.
Direct link to the project: https://www.vrc.crim.cam.ac.uk/vrcresearch/london-medieval-m...
Definitely. People also use it to learn a new skill, for help with parts of a task that they aren't an expert in, etc. (I do a lot of sessions there on the mentor side)
I'm not sure the decline will be gradual. Also, prices unsupported by the actual company's fundamentals will now absolutely bring in more shorts, perhaps even the same people that got squeezed on the way up, recouping their losses and maybe profiting at the expense of retailers that wait too long.
No, it is saying something different. You can only loan out your share of stock once, but the person who buys the stock can lend it out again.

So let's imagine there is one share of a stock and person A owns it... they lend it to person B, who sells it to person C, who lends it to person D who sells it to person E....

Now, person E is the only person who currently holds an actual 'share', and is the only person who can lend it out. Person A and C will have an IOU saying they will be given back their share at date x... they can sell the IOU, since it has the same value as a share, but they can't lend out an IOU.
I was expecting a huge quarter, but this is something else. WFH and Remote learning, lot of people bought new Desktop or Laptop. Which isn’t just Apple but across all computing industry, AMD, Intel, Microsoft etc. iPhone 12 was bound to sell with new design and 5G. But again number were way higher than even the most optimistic expectation. ( Mainly China’s uptake being a lot higher )

It is crazy to think back not long ago we thought we will hit the law of big numbers. And yet despite being a two trillion company they are still growing 10-20%!

And after 5 years, just like the Mac Pro they finally admit they made lots of mistakes in Mac development. Like MagSafe and SD Card. Hopefully someday keyboard and Trackpad.

The only thing left is the iOS App Store. Which is a complicated problem with no decent solution (yet).
I'm not sure that's true. Most of the medication I came across came from third rate Russian or Indian suppliers. I highly doubt the sales of drugs from these countries (also poor countries) to another poor country (Tanzania) was charity.
A short squeeze is different from a pump and dump. For one thing it's legal.
I don't think that statement is outlandish. Regular users might, say:

- smoke alone instead of meeting up with friends

- be less productive/successful

- smoke as an aid for emotional pain
That asset has associated risk vs cash that for the most part doesn’t. The risk being you don’t get the cash back. One dollar did not become two. If you sell the asset you get your cash back from whoever bought it, and it comes out of their account, again one dollar did not become two, unless it’s the Fed sure, they can create money.

Shares aren’t created unless the company issues more right?
From your comment it seems like the issue is around good customer service.

You want to see something, tell someone you don't like seeing that thing, have someone make it no longer there. Repeatedly over a period of time.

Whether that's an A-10 or a magician on a flying carpet doing that work, the work just needs to get done.

I wonder if a fleet of drones will do that work. You could have them peel off, refuel and come back as required automatically while maintaining a minimum strike force in the area.

Regardless, it has to Just Work TM.
Out of the frying pan, into...another frying pan!

I keep waiting for one of these high-profile, fucked-with groups to jump to a dentralized network. Still waiting...
That's what I figured might be the limiting factor. At some point, nobody wants to take the other end of the short, so it becomes impossible to short further.
It’s pretty insane how big of a marketshare CVS owns. They can make or break small pharmacies. Either you accept their terms or they refuse to let hospitals and doctors to work with you.

I really hope this works out. We need more public corps companies like this.
the tweet says > 100k
Do have any personal info here, because the first ten articles I read were up there and your article doesn’t negate it
That inc article is the only place I see those margin caps and it doesn't come sources. Other articles say that costco doesn't publish their margins.

However, their financial statements do indicate an 11% average gross markup.

But there are definitely plenty of products marked up more than 18% at Costco. Either that or they are paying way too much for some things.
How much of this is correlation and how much causation?
A generalized distributed backup system. ZFS seems like it could be a good backend for this, but the general idea would be that you have “collections” of files, and you have disks. Many collections may fit onto one disk, or maybe one collection requires many disks to hold it. The exact mechanism of storage is abstracted away from you unless you specify it manually. And then, there is a mechanism for authoring and syncing removable media like hard disks or writeable DVDs to provide backup of these files. Bonus points if you don’t need to be able to store the full collection on your main drive in order to browse/search.

Photos would be a good starting place for this, since they are easy to fingerprint.
Everyone I knew who used weed regularly in high school and college had ghosts. Either issues with depression, neglect, and lot of abuse.

Sometimes it's not the drug use that causes the problems, it's the problems that cause the drug use.

Not bashing folks who smoke weed here. I partake on occasion. But this study is bullshit.

“Overall, regular use of cannabis – more than weekly and especially daily use – was found to have harmful consequences, regardless of the age people began using it.”

Regular use of anything, particularly if it's mind altering, is likely to cause harmful long term effects. Particularly if it starts at young ages. That said, the study doesn't seem to even attempt to ask why these people were regularly smoking weed in their teens.
It's sort of the open market.

The history is that Canada used to have "compulsory licensing" for patented drugs. Anyone could manufacture a patented drug in Canada and pay a ?6?% or whatever royalty to the patent owner and they just had to deal with it.

Over the years, first 4, then 10 years of exclusivity were provided to the patent owner.

Then the WTO came along, and presently, everyone has agreed to ~20y exclusivity and charge/pay the median price of OECD countries before it's a royalty-free free-for-all.

http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/BP/prb9946-e.h...

Canadian generic drugs today aren't usually cheaper than US generics, except where patent exclusivity mismatches.
‘Stunned’: GameStop trading frenzy causes local mining company shares to soar
I do know his life story because he tells it in every interview he gives. I understand what you are trying to say but just because I have not met him doesn't mean that I can't criticize him.

His VC fund had LPs that lost money. I don't think they really give a shit about "welfare over profits". Once it's a family office yeah sure preach about welfare over profits but remember he had a fiduciary responsibility to his LPs which he (likely) broke.

"No more real discussion". This is what real discussion looks like. People LOVE chamath and I am explaining what I see is wrong about him.
Well i'm employed, i am happy with my personal life, and i don't smoke. I don't drink to excess, and everyone's depressed right now.

So these are the sorts of harms i think i can ignore.
No, the person who lent the share out can demand it back and refuse to lend it out again... normally, the short seller would just turn around and borrow another share from someone else to sell short, "rolling over" their short position, but that assumes there is another share to borrow. There usually is, it not always.... and it might be VERY expensive to borrow if it is a heavily shorted stock.
Perhaps, pick your favorite number. I think it's pretty clear nobody believes fundamentals support $300 though. Was wondering why market short pressure doesn't prevent it from getting that high.
Didn't we get support for it last month
Which ISPs do deploy/force NAT with IPv6? (I don't trust the industry enough to say there are none, but it'd be highly unusual)
After researching a little more I've found I was incorrect. There are always more long shares than short shares. However, the "long" shares are not necessarily real shares in the company. They could be ones that have been lent out as described above.
Memristors are the technology that seemed poised to usher in a new era of computing. The promise of being able to redraw the current computer architectural hierarchies is tantalizing.

If machine learning applications are what finally get memristors out into the world, I wish them godspeed.
I'm very happy to see that Dallas, TX will be the site of the factory.
POO isn't useless... The main problem with programming patterns is that most ppl using them didn't understand the scope still :Ð
This is great. Just used it to book my appointment at a Walgreens across town. Thanks!
There's been a lot more of this in the last 8 months when it's been pretty difficult to actually lose in the stock market.
Not that you're making bad points, but there's a big difference in acing a math exam vs actually assimilating the various underlying concepts, at least at a university level IME. I know plenty of people who would pass as 'geniuses' by your definition that just cram past problems and get high grades. And honestly if you've been to college you'd know that it's almost impossible for a novel problem you've never encountered before show up on an test.

A lot of otherwise intelligent people fairly despise such practices so they adopt inefficient studying habits , failing to complete a set syllabus and achieving subpar results.
He says Apple stores backups but WhatsApp does not. Well no not WhatsApp itself but the backups are stored in iCloud or Google drive there. They're optional but you can never tell if a recipient has it switched on.

So IMO it's just as compromised as iMessage on this point.
Well. If you hold the stock for long enough, over time its fundamental value will be realised.

To mangle something that Lincoln probably never said:

All the stock prices can be somewhat wrong for some time, and some stock prices can be very wrong all the time, but all stock prices can't be very wrong all the time.
Never had any myself but know plenty who have. However as an Australian I want to point out that this study uses Australian people as it’s dataset.

Therefore it’s tainted by the implication that cannabis is an illegal drug and the people in this study spent some portion of their life associated with regularly performing a illegal act... This is basically worthless from the foundation up since they can’t possibly account for all the ways this might have influenced a persons upbringing, from the socially acceptable nature of taking risks with the law, to associating with drug dealers who may (or may not) try to push harder more addictive drugs on their customers.

It’s going to be a while until we get similar studies from the parts of America where it was made legal for recreational use, but until then, we have to remember that everything has been tainted with the implications of the subject participants in any study being involved in socially “unacceptable” illegal behaviour which is connected to a huge tangled web of second order effects.
Don't kid yourself. It was intentional. We should all be getting really worried about these platforms.

You feel that cold breeze? The future is coming and it's chilly.
Population bias.

Correlation.

Population bias.

Correlation.

Slow day in the academic universe?
Only the usual insider trading and market manipulation allowed can be allowed.
> The point of the government is to be a steward of our society and to ensure it is fair, healthy and prosperous

This is your understanding of government, and it is a paternalistic understanding of government. I do not share this view and that is a source of contention between us.

> Why does the past or future matter? Their decisions can impact our democracy now. The fact is, they own the market now and they can impact our democracy now.

They own some of the servers people spend some of their time and do some of their communication on. Everything from Netflix to POTS is their competition, and Facebook does not have a monopoly on community.

> So are you saying we just let facebook do whatever they want until they are replaced by competition? What if that impacts our society negatively for a year? A decade? 100 years? At what point do we step in and enact laws to protect our society from negative consequences?

At what point do we charge people with the responsibility of managing their own time and making their own choices independent of where they choose to spend it and how they choose to socialize and communicate? Our democracy is the countless choices people make every day, at the ballot box, in the courts, and how we live with our communities. Facebook is an option.

Whatever relative power Facebook holds today, has held in the past and will hold in the future is a consequence of the choices of billions of individuals, but power has its own economy that competes against power for varying outcomes. Power, no matter how concentrated, does not exist in a vacuum.
Someone's going to be holding the bag on this when the short squeeze ends and it won't just be Citron or the other shorts.
It has been repeated under a bunch of different circumstances, including with real dogs being shocked. Sidestepping conclusions because of hypothetical escape hatches in the original methodology isn't a great idea.
I had to check if it would fall under Trump's Right to Try Act [0], but sadly it doesn't seem like it would meet the requirements. Perhaps this is something we can continue pushing for more freedom enabling legislation though.

[0] https://www.fda.gov/patients/learn-about-expanded-access-and...
An E2EE messaging app is not a crypto project?
FWIW the subreddit did not go private. It was temporarily turned off because the load was affecting Reddit as a whole. It lasted less than 30 minutes.
I see that there are walgreens in my area, but when I do it by zip I am getting

"We couldn't find any Walgreens/Duane Reade immunization locations in your area."

I'm assuming that means the vaccine isn't happening there? I only ask because I'm making a script to hit your website every hour and shoot me a text if something becomes available. But nothing will ever be available because it's not a vaccine site, correct?
From the actual paper:

"By the mid‐30s, both young‐adult and adolescent‐onset regular users were more likely than minimal/non‐users (63.5%) to have used other illicit drugs (odds ratio [OR] > 20.4), be a high‐risk alcohol drinker (OR > 3.7), smoked daily (OR > 7.2) and less likely to be in relationships (OR < 0.4)."

So this study basically shows that cannabis users are more likely to experiment with other drugs -- meanwhile, the "less likely to be in relationships" factor might not even be statistically significant (the OR is < 0.4). I'm not sure how one defines "anti-social behaviours" either, other than conforming into some societal box.
Nazis like Adolf Eichmann were simply germans... who actually believed in what they were doing. Those who didn't but followed orders anyway were probably doing so out of fear, not simply because humans are order-following rubes.

> No, if we were to do the experiment in modern terms, you would place an actor in the chair and have a professor instruct their student that they are experimenting with correcting racist behavior out of the subject in a humane way. Would a liberal student reject this sort of experiment in 2020?

If you think a liberal student of 2020 would follow orders instructing them to torture a racist, but would reject an order that wasn't accompanied by a justification tailored to their ideology, then it sounds like you agree with my take. Given a free choice (e.g. no threat to kill their family if they refuse) people will follow orders if you convince them of the necessity of those orders by appealing to their ideologies and biases, but will refuse orders if the explanations for those orders are incompatible with their ideologies. But this is the 'water is wet' conclusion, not the attention grabbing conclusion Milgram sold to the public.
The style OP is advocating lines well with Rust at least. Rust still tends to use method syntax, but it is very strict around mutability and virtual dispatch is rarely used, so you tend to write your programs with similar flavor as the OP is arguing for.